There are Six Significant Ways That the Republican War on Women (RWoW) is a Real and Dangerous War:

Women
are dying.

Soldiers
are on the front lines.

Congress
declared the war.

Propaganda
is used to gain public sympathy.

Additional
funding is sought from the public.

Women
are questioned as to their allegiances.

Women
are dying.

Let
it be known far and wide that war kills people. In this case, the
casualties are primarily but not limited to women. The first to die
in the Republican War on Women (RWOW) are in the lower economic
class. Take for instance, 29 year-old Anna
Brown, who died in a St. Louis jail cell after being refused
treatment at a local hospital and having the police called on her for
trespassing. Her story is one of the private sector in healthcare
refusing to do for a woman what it is required by law to do. The
police of St. Louis made it a crime for Anna to seek medical help.
One can only assume that this might happen to men too.

Women
around the world (including the United States) die every year due to
botched do-it-yourself abortion procedures where medical expertise is
not sought. But the shocking truth is that these deaths are not only
acknowledged legislatively, but even encouraged. Under the Bush
administration and with a Republican-ruled Congress, the Food &
Drug Administration considered the effects of a medication that poor
women were using to induce abortion at home. Though
more than 10 years of research has overwhelmingly shown that Cytotec
is a safe way to induce abortion when administered correctly during
normal pregnancies, the Food and Drug Administration has never
approved this particular use.What
the FDA did, in fact, recognize was the drug's use
by obstetricians to induce contractions in routine deliveries – a
method which they know causes extreme hemorrhaging and risk to both
the baby and the mother's lives.

One
of the most awe-inspiring discoveries made about the Republican
Presidential candidates in the 2012 election so far has been the far
reaching grasp they have on the mental health industry under the
guise of religion under George W. Bush's “Faith Based Initiatives”
program. Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry were all
discovered to sit on boards, take ownership of or otherwise run
pseudo-healthcare rehabilitation facilities that focus on teenagers
and children. A majority of these supposedly “troubled” youths
are female and “at risk” for lesbianism or abortion according to
their religious “therapists”. At least two of these girls are
known
to have died under rather ominous circumstances.

A Christian Fundamentalist Holding a Sign Celebrating the Murders of Women at a Democratic Event in Arizona.

Soldiers
are on the front lines.

On
July 28, 2005 a female 'soldier' named Jamie Leigh Jones was
stationed in Baghdad by a Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown &
Root (called “KBR” in short) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On this day, Jamie Leigh Jones was, according to her and many
witnesses (to varying degrees at various stages of the saga that was
yet to come), gang-raped and then subsequently locked in a shipping
container without access to a phone by her colleagues at KBR.

Three
years after her rape (I refuse to use the word “alleged” on
principal here), Jones lost
her case against KBR and was counter-sued by the
military-industrial contractor to the tune of $2million for what they
claimed was a “frivolous” lawsuit. (A federal judge did at least
dismiss those counter-claims). While the case was lost quietly, in
comparison to the swell of outrage that finally led up to it, it is
worth noting that none of the defendants were deemed innocent of
having sex with Jones. Her case was lost primarily due to
insufficient evidence that the sex was not consensual. Photos of the
trauma to her vagina, anus, ruptured breast implants and torn
pectoral muscles were not-so-mysteriously missing from the evidence
collected by her colleagues themselves (the very defendants in the
case).

Congress
(30 white, male Republican Senators) Declared This War.

Jones'
case against KBR (and thereby against the United States, considering
the nature of their business), although certainly the most
high-profile is not
the only rape nor sexual discrimination case against a
military-industrial contractor. What came to light in her 3-year
struggle to face her attackers in a court of law was the audaciously
horrible “mandatory
arbitration clause” in her contract with KBR. KBR argued
successfully that they had the right to deny Jones the ability to sue
them for any reason at all. This contract, which was commonly
administered to most contractors at the time, defied the very nature
of justice and demanded that all legal disputes, no matter how severe
or how outrageous the offense, would be handled “in-house” by the
company itself – effectively giving persons wronged by the company
NO RECOURSE to defend themselves legally.

One Senator,
Democrat Al Franken, from Minnesota, had a serious problem with this
injustice and drafted legislation which proposed that the United
States stop doing business with companies that required such an
egregious erosion of civil liability. When it came time for a vote
on the Senate floor, the bill passed with bipartisan support. All
were in favor of protecting women from becoming the Jamie Leigh
Jones' of the future... Everyone except for the 30
White Male Republican Senators who voted against the measure. One
such Senator, shockingly, was John Sidney McCain, whose daughter
Meghan is exactly Jones' age.

The outcry and backlash from the
public was widespread but short-lived. 30 White Male Republican
Senators had essentially voted (albeit unsuccessfully) to legalize
rape... Let the War Begin.

Pro-War
Propaganda is Issued By Governmental Pundits and The Media

In
any war, the real nucleus of the battle is known to be over “the
hearts and minds of the people”, as George W. Bush famously noted.
For that purpose, political propaganda is employed. There are
currently no better propagandists in the world than our Republican
party here in the USA. To illustrate this, there are far too many
examples to simply list without format. The blogosphere is riddled
with senseless arguments ranging from biblical scripture to ad
hominem
attacks against democratic female legislators and liberals. To
provide this point with some citation at least, I've randomly
selected a few of the most obvious attempts to culturally re-frame
the RWOW as an acceptable and justified movement.

Due
to pressure from Tea Party astroturfers, Republican legislators in
Michigan spend weeks on end and countless public dollars on a law
forbidding a kind of abortion that they
admit is not even practiced in the state to anyone's knowledge.
The procedure that they have incorrectly termed “partial birth
abortion” is really called dilation and extraction and is only
used by abortion doctors in 1/5 of one percent of all procedures and
only when medically necessary.

An
anti-abortion activist group called LiveAction sets up fake “sting
operations” in which they target female employees of Planned
Parenthood. Many professional women have their careers ruined by
“Brietbart-style”
video editing in which the public is falsely led to believe that
Planned Parenthood is in cahoots with the perpetrators of human
trafficking and sex-slavery.

Michele
Bachmann (R-MN), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), and Connie Mack (R-FL) all
vote against their own best interests and against the interests of
their female constituents by voting
against the Paycheck Fairness Act of 2009. Fortunately, thanks
to a Democratic Majority and the vote of only ONE Republican woman
(Ileana Ros-Lehtinen), the bill passed anyway and now women must be
paid equally for doing the exact same job as a man.

Florida
Representative and amateur pundit Allen West launches a full-scale
attack (in writing no less!) against Representative Debbie
Wasserman Schultz after she dared to call his judgment into question
regarding detrimental cuts to Medicare. West sent out public emails
that termed his female colleague “the
most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the US House of
Representatives”,
“not
a lady”
and “a
coward”
who “wants
a personal fight”
and needs to “shut
the heck up”.

Georgia's
Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is also a legislator-pundit
hybrid who advocates the most extreme measures to deal with the most
insignificant of problems. When his office isn't busy sending death
threats to gay bloggers, they are advocating
legislation which would make it illegal to use your car for the
purpose of driving a woman to a clinic known to have performed
abortions.

Republican
blogger and ALEC propagandist Michelle Malkin has given birth to
what she calls “the
war on conservative women” (her feeble yet not-too-timid
attempt at counter-spin) and in a nutshell, this is just a steady
stream of tweets (every 5 minutes, depending on the day) on her
Twitter account which attack Hilary Rosen, the Democratic pundit
who dared to question Ann Romney's fitness as her husband's
appointed expert on “Women and the Economy”.

Stay
Tuned Tomorrow for 6 Ways That RWOW is a Real War Part II – Funding
and Allegiance